The issue is that Encore crashes on startup, I'm tired of reinstalling it, and when I tried to render a 1 minute video in Encore, I came back an hour later and it still wasn't done. I'm running a dual core 2 ghz amd, cs4, 2gb ram and 4gb readyboost.

I'd -really- like Encore to work, but I've spent way too much time troubleshooting the authoring component of the DVD, when I'm making DVDs not for TV but for basic e-learning type stuff in which people don't require "perfect" quality.